Home › Authors › Ruth Snyder Ruth Snyder b. 1895 – d. 1928 · 1 book Biography May Ruth Snyder (née Brown) was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph. Books by Ruth Snyder The trial of Ruth Snyder and J The trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray 1938